Larry Kuehn

Retired Research Director at BC Teachers' Federation. Member of the boards of CoDevelopment Canada and the Institute for Public Education/BC.

[Larry Kuehn @larryk44]

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators https://t.co/8pJG24Ipg0

[Geoff Bickerton @gbickerton398]

The postal bargaining round unlike any other

A look back at the unprecedented 2024-26 Canada Post negotiations—and the lessons CUPW should take from them.

@CanadianLabour @cupenat @CUPEOntario

https://t.co/O8gTUenxWy

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

The NDP government announced 64 additional skilled trades training seats at Vancouver Island University this week for a total of 5,000 new trades training seats across BC in 2026-27. (https://t.co/9U767yrCmH)

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

BC’s NDP govt is expanding the successful chronic property offenders intervention program. This has proven effective at improving safety and reducing offences in downtown business areas in Kelowna, Nanaimo and Nelson - will open twelve more program hubs in communities across BC.

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

BC consumers have the lowest electricity rates in Canada thanks to publicly-owned BC Hydro. Our NDP govt. Also has the toughest controls on AI & data centres, including strict caps on electricity use, a competitive allocation process, and a permanent crypto-mining ban…

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

Currently, BC Hydro has 917 charging ports at 190 locations in the province. Over the next decade, BC Hydro will increase the number to 3500 charging hubs in communities throughout the province. This is climate leadership! (https://t.co/6nk5QTzcny)

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

BC’s NDP government just announced 55 new homes for the homeless in Kamloops, 70 in the Comox Valley – and are on track with a total of 9,800 homes for the homeless open or underway this year. That’s nearly 10,000 homeless people who are now housed and off the street…

[Larry Kuehn @larryk44]

This article describes the impact of education budget cuts better than any statistics could.

https://t.co/N64a4haXC6

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The federal government has finally acknowledged the practice of surveillance pricing, months after the NDP raised the alarm and sparked a national conversation about it.

But the bill doesn’t ban this disturbing practice - in fact, it doesn’t even mention it by name. Instead, it just promises vague regulatory action in the future.

In contrast, Wab Kinew’s NDP government in Manitoba is simply making the practice illegal. That’s the only way to stop big tech and big grocery chains from teaming up to gouge consumers.

We’ve put this issue on the table, and we’ll keep building public pressure on the government to act decisively: today’s bill does nothing definitive to protect Canadians from this very real threat.

https://t.co/xUYHVTtTSx

[Larry Kuehn @larryk44]

AI data centres are coming to Vancouver. Here's what experts want you to know https://t.co/7WueVVIfq4

[NDP @NDP]

The Liberals have finally acknowledged the dangers of surveillance pricing, after the NDP raised the alarm about corporations using personal information to charge you more.

But they still won't commit to banning it.

The decision should be simple.

If companies are mining your data to squeeze more money out of you, your government should use their power to protect you — not corporate profits.

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

This should be a number one priority for @BCSTA_News

@tracyloffler

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Who isn't telling the truth: A school principal or a very-recently retired senior @vicpdcanada cop? Students, parents & community deserve answers. Listen here; https://t.co/2Gb61KwXCv

[Bea Bruske, CLC President @PresidentCLC]

Canada’s Unions fully support the statement by leaders representing teachers across Canada against the use of notwithstanding clause during labour negotiations. I urge everyone to add their name to this petition.

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Good synopsis of what happened in @sd61schools leading up to, and after, @lisabeare decided to fire the elected board. This is as bad as I've been saying all long. Why is no one taking accountability @Dave_Eby? #bcpoli #bced https://t.co/bwTT6qlrih

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Accountability needed.

"No one raises the question of why the ministry and one interest group — the police — set out to undermine and destroy a school board elected by the citizens of Greater Victoria.
"The messages also make Beare look ridiculous."
https://t.co/8N4LXBUuK7

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

I've suspected something like this was going on between senior BC education ministry staff and police officials. Heads should roll. This really stinks. These trustees should be compensated, along with their immediate reinstatement. @Dave_Eby https://t.co/ld6p8Dkgk0

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Good lord. There needs to be accountability for this.

"Hern says the texts were so damning that the province was forced to withdraw its case."

"In court today Hern categorized the texts as “derogatory”, commenting on the looks of Chair Nicole Duncan."

https://t.co/IuORfURyq6

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Here's our 🎶 parody version of Barry McGuire's 1965 "Eve of Destruction" that we've modernised to turn to current US adventurism. We're calling it: "Grief and Destruction" 🚀
#Iran
#micfaceblockage
#cajonfrontandcentre